[uncbob]

Well one wonders why in the hell the USA troop surge didn’t include sending help to Basra or maybe that is on the time table?

[familyop]

"Well one wonders why in the hell the USA troop surge didn’t include sending help to Basra or maybe that is on the time table?"

...because we haven't increased any enlisted infantryman of Irish descent from the Ozarks to the rank of General, and British enlisted infantryman from east London, Northern Ireland or poor neighborhood in Scotland (both needed from families with masculine fathers). There's too much pride and virtual fatherlessness in the upper ranks.